Copper on the spool. Fuel in the excavator. Tools in the gang box. Lumber on the pad. Between the last crew leaving and the first crew arriving, a job-site is the highest-value, lowest-supervision asset in your portfolio. We put a licensed, OSHA-10 officer at the gate, run randomized interior patrols, and hand you a signed incident log before the super gets his first coffee. Across Tennessee and Mississippi. Dispatched out of Memphis. Compatible with the COI your GC already requires.
Ask a general contractor what keeps them up at night and it's not a pulled permit. It's the call at 5:47 AM from the first ironworker on the pad — the one where the tool crib is open, the spool is gone, and the month's delay is already locked in. Four patterns drive almost every industrial loss in the Mid-South. Here's how we interrupt each one.
Memphis and the Mid-South copper corridor — from rail-served yards in South Memphis to the solar-farm laydowns in Hardeman and Tate counties — are a national hotspot. We catch the pattern early: cut fences at 2 AM, repeat recon visits in unmarked trucks, bolt-cutter marks on the transformer cage. A randomized overnight patrol plus a staffed gate cuts copper theft by more than two-thirds within the first quarter, based on our 2024 client book.
Milwaukee M18 battery sets, Hilti rotary hammers, total stations, laser levels. A single tool crib can carry $80k of gear and resurface on a Facebook Marketplace listing by sunrise. We lock down the shanty at end-of-shift with a signed pass-down, photograph the lock, and tie gang-box sensors into our dispatch. A contact at the padlock is a dispatch event — not a Monday-morning police report.
Generators, skid-steers, mini-excavators, pickup trucks loaded with fuel tanks — every single one rolls on its own wheels and every single one has a thriving resale market on both sides of the TN/MS state line. We deploy marked vehicles on randomized interior sweeps, photograph serialized machines at shift-change, log fuel-cap seal numbers, and GPS-verify equipment location against the site plan every patrol.
Empty sites attract squatters, graffiti crews, scrap-metal scouts, and the occasional drone-flying hobbyist over a regulated perimeter. The liability exposure is real — an unauthorized person falls off a third-floor deck and the GC's insurer pays regardless of intent. Our officer verifies the site is empty at end-of-shift, posts the perimeter, and interrupts any unauthorized entry with an observe-report-escalate protocol that keeps everyone safe and everyone documented.
Every engagement is a six-stage program — not a posted officer and a hope. The stages are sequenced so the site is measured before we mobilize, the protocol is written before the first shift, and the GC gets the first report the first morning. No improvisation on your project.
A senior officer walks the project perimeter with your super before the contract signs. We map gate locations, power-drop points, high-value storage, vehicle ingress, fence weaknesses, camera coverage gaps, and the three adjacent properties that matter — dumpsters behind neighbors, rail spurs, night-lit strip malls. The walk is written up and signed before day one.
We own the gate. Crew ID verification, subcontractor log-in, vendor validation against the submitted-schedule, delivery escorts to drop point. We'll stand up a physical gate shanty with lighting and a climate-rated radio in under 24 hours or integrate with whatever badge system the GC already uses — Brivo, Openpath, straight RFID, it all works.
Randomized interior and perimeter sweeps between end-of-crew-day and first-crew-in. Frequency tuned to the size and risk profile — a 4-acre multifamily pad gets different cadence from a 140-acre solar farm. Every sweep geo-stamped, exterior-photographed, and logged. No predictable gaps. Marked vehicles where appropriate, unmarked where discreet surveillance matters more than visible deterrent.
Your Honeywell, DMP, Bosch, or alarm-dot-com system routes through our Memphis dispatch floor on priority. AI camera feeds — Pro-Vigil, LiveView, Eagle Eye, ONVIF — trigger officer dispatch, not just a phone notification. Combined officer-plus-AI overnight coverage comes in 30 to 45 percent below a full standing post, with faster response than either alone.
For projects running a site office trailer, superintendent trailer, owner's rep trailer, or material-laydown office, we assign a named officer and a named backup. Door locks, window checks, paperwork security, office-hours vendor badging. The trailer is treated as a critical post, not a checkbox — because the drawings, the safety plan, and the subcontractor payroll all live in it.
Every morning before 9 AM — at the latest, and usually before 7 — the super and the GC PM get a timestamped Daily Activity Report. Gate log, patrol log, anomaly notes, photographs, equipment inventory variance, any vendor or vehicle flagged. Signed by the officer, reviewed by dispatch, stored in your client portal. Pulled into monthly aggregate for project closeout.
We've been on projects bonded through every major surety in the Mid-South, sub to every regional GC of scale, and on every federally-funded project type. Your prime-contract paperwork doesn't change because we're the security sub — we fold into yours. Six requirement areas we handle out-of-the-box.
We sign standard AIA A401 subcontract and A201-compatible clauses without red-lining the indemnity, the insurance floor, or the dispute-resolution sections. Legal has seen the language a hundred times. Signed in 24 hours, back to your GC same day.
Certificate of Insurance with GC, owner, and lender as additional insured. $5M GL, $2M professional per occurrence, $2M surety bond, statutory WC, $1M auto, $1M cyber. ACORD 25 + 855 endorsement combo. Issued by our broker in under four business hours.
Every officer on an industrial or construction contract carries a current OSHA 10 card — not optional, not waived. Site supervisors hold OSHA 30. Cards stored in the officer file and available on request, uploaded to Avetta, ISN, Veriforce, or your system of record.
On low-voltage, fiber, and solar-EPC projects, our officers are briefed to respect cable-tray and panel-array clearances, coordinate subcontractor sign-in, and escort vendors to scope-specific work zones without disrupting commissioning or punchout.
Class-2 hi-vis, ANSI Z89.1 hard hat, ANSI Z87.1 safety glasses, ASTM F2413 boots, cut-resistant gloves — all issued by us, not billed to the client. Fall-protection 6-ft anchored harness available for any officer posted on deck, scaffold, or leading-edge access control.
$2M Errors & Omissions plus layered general liability means the officer AND the firm are covered for professional negligence, documentation errors, and third-party property damage. Critical for GC insurers that push risk down the sub chain. Named E&O carrier on file.
Eight questions we hear from general contractors, superintendents, construction managers, and owner's reps on almost every initial call. If your question isn't here, the same dispatcher who answers our line at 3 AM can answer it at 3 PM.
A senior officer walks your project, maps the risk, meets your super, and delivers a signed written assessment inside ten business days. No cost, no obligation, no pitch. If the site is bonded and moving, we can have a gate officer and a patrol vehicle live inside 72 hours — 24 if you've already had a break-in.
